Re: [NTLK] What Benshop is doing

From: Woo Lee (vitcitylb_at_earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Sep 12 2003 - 10:09:01 PDT


It's great for it's main market, the Vertical Market, back in 1995-1997.
Since it wasn't meant for the general public it's hard to say it was a bad
design. Don't forget that it's a big-brother to the first 'Runt'. The
initial design was to be a keyboard-less 12" diag. screen pen tablet.
After the 'Runt' was released, the form grew based on internal needs and
functions, fitting your needs was not the main focus.
If only the 'LC110' got into production. :-(
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>id consider the newt to be a not-so-well designed product. it lacks the
>oh-so-needed hardware buttons, a scrolling wheel, a separate audio jack
>and it is far to large, not to mention heavy. the newton HW line never
>crerated a dominant design within PDAs (or sub-notebooks), which in
>itself is proof enough it was a bad design.
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